Beer thread!

[HenryDorsetCase]

Skidmark is young, a lot of people develop a taste for bitter food and drink as they get older.

Mark, do you like black coffee/no sugar? what about grapefruit?
Gin and tonic?

If the answer is mostly no, stick to rtds and try beer in 5 years time.

indeed, this is true.

My favourites at present are Macs Hop Rocker, and Little Creatures India Pale Ale from sunny Western Australia. Lager I like Boags.

I used to like Steinlager but now don't.

My favourite alcoholic drink is Champagne. (like Winston Churchill, though I can't afford Pommeroy in industrial quantities)

[bungbung]

Emersons Pilsener is good, Three Boys too.
Limburg Hopsmacker is like hoprocker.

[Curious_AJ]

I drink beer quite a lot... but in saying that, I'll have speights if i'm going for an all nighter (easy to drink for me), tiger if i'm feeling exotic or zesty radlier if i'm feeling fruity.... other than that I pretty much drink anything that's thrown in a cup... besides the content of 2girls 1cup.... *vom*...

answer to the question: drink whatever the heck you like!!! no one really cares! we're all too busy drinking what we like to notice.. lol..

[bungbung]

we're all too busy drinking what we like to notice.. lol..

Except for a kb member (name withheld) who drank Pimms and L&P

[ManDownUnder]

Mark - you be you... that's something people can't diss you for. I tried to like classical music once - apparently is just amasing if/when you're into it and I see so many people - of all ages) serenely listening to the stuff and just mellowing out.

I tried - I failed dismally... it's just not me.

Sounds like beer's the same for you. Don't sweat it - save your money and drink what you do like. If it's water, orange juice or spirits... it doesn't matter. Being true to you counts for a lot more than following what the masses are doing.

Takes more guts, and it's a lot more comfortable to do.

As for me - I like Lion Red (bring on the insults - I don't care). I think it's good stuff and the fact it's cheap is nothing but a bonus. People can take the piss out of me all they want... I don't care. I know what I like and I'm true to myself.

I can't stand most spirits unless they're mixed with something and my all time favourite drinks are what the Yanks call "fru fru drinks" (typically drunk by gay guys or girls). Butterscotch schnappes and baileys (Slippery nipple aka Cock sucking cowboy).

No biggy - and as I say... I just don't care. I know what I like... so I do what I like. Easy enough.

If you want to be like someone - be like me. Stand out. I'll respect you for it.

[Tank]

Except for a kb member (name withheld) who drank Pimms and L&P

I assume he was riding a Honda?

[bungbung]

Another note is you may like the sweeter beers. Radler/Pilsner and the like.

Pilsener is generally bitter due to the high hop content

[Mikkel]

"Would you like a can of Harden The Fuck Up with your beer sir?"

Seriously though, drinking the revolting sewage that some kiwis pass off as beer is probably not a good idea if you want to learn to like the stuff (and have tastebuds...).

But yeah, beer is something you have to learn to like. I didn't start liking beers until I was around 20 I guess. I still drank them - FAST - just to get the effect.
Later I started to enjoy them and later I began appreciating a lot of very different beers...

If you want effect I can warmly recommend the snake bite as mentioned earlier here... Albeit what was proposed was preposterous!

Snake bite with BITE (the good stuff):

Part 1: Recipe

1 part Ngarhere Gold from Harrisons (7.2% Alc./vol.)
1 part Scrumpy (e.g. from Harrisons) (~8% Alc./vol.)
A splash of black currant cordial - just enough to give it a reddish tint.

Part 2: Drink
Part 3: Get in trouble
Part 4: Pass out
Part 5: Try to remember

If you want to get seriously drunk and have a lot of booze around here are something that'll make you forget everything about beer:

The good: B52

60 ml shot glass
1. 20 ml Kahlua
2. 20 ml Baileys
3. 20 ml Grand Mariner/Cointreau

Poor in layers and light the Grand Mariner/Cointreau at the top if you like burn wounds...

The bad: Sneaky Fucking Russian

Normal glass
60 ml Vodka
30-60 ml Kahlua
Add Baileys as if it was milk for a white russian

Have fun, it's sneaky!

The ugly: Nighttrain

Pint glass
40-60 ml Vodka
40-60 ml Tequila
40-60 ml White rum
40-60 ml Gin
40-60 ml Grandmariner/Cointreau
250 ml can of Redbull/V/any energy drink you like...

This one's pretty potent - I doubt you'll get a bar to serve it to you.
Have fun

hahahahahahahaha.....Skidmark and hard work hardly go hand in hand

Skidmark is a piece of hard work as far as I've understood

[jim.cox]

Pilsener is generally bitter due to the high hop content

Pilsner, IMHO, generally tastes of nothing.

Its the Pale Ale's that have the good hop flavour going on

[yod]

Lion Red is so far away from what beer should taste like anyway I would not bother... far too much of a 'mass produced' taste. Kiwi's have a lot to learn!

oh whatever

[HenryDorsetCase]

Pilsner, IMHO, generally tastes of nothing.

Its the Pale Ale's that have the good hop flavour going on

as a recent convert to the India Pale Ale, I concur.

[Beemer]

Get a bottle of Schwepes Raspberry cordial, open a beer... (goes well with 'Ice') take a wee skull, put some cordial in... it sweetens it up and actually tastes really good...

Skull? Ugh, no wonder it tasted like shit when I tried it! Maybe if I'd had a wee scull of the beer instead...

My husband doesn't like beer, never has and never will. Mind you, he's not a fan of alcohol of any kind. Doesn't worry me, means I always have a sober driver on hand!

[Curious_AJ]

Skull? Ugh, no wonder it tasted like shit when I tried it! Maybe if I'd had a wee scull of the beer instead...

My husband doesn't like beer, never has and never will. Mind you, he's not a fan of alcohol of any kind. Doesn't worry me, means I always have a sober driver on hand!

lucky! ...

but then again, we all love Magua for constantly being our sober driver when he had a car... and now? well it could be RM (in the un-reg car) or we're all generally sober... booze and bikes is not a good idea...

[Nagash]

I've always liked beer, grew up in England next door to a pub They gave me beer at 8 years old! That place was a laugh.

Unfortunately the kiwi piss is absolutely foul. Tui, Lion Red, Double Brown. The rotten shite like that is a sin against beer-kind. For some reason I really like Export Gold though that's the cheap stuff too.

Usually go for Monteiths (Summer Ale is good for those who prefer sweet beer) or Macs Gold.

The ol' lemonade and beer is getting surprisingly more common.. ruins the taste in my opinion. And that post about like bitter things I thought was surprisingly true, i've always drunk black coffee, never had objection to grape fruit and drink gin and tonic every day of the summer. Odd but understandable theory..

[Coldrider]

as a recent convert to the India Pale Ale, I concur.

If you mean 'TUI' a East India Pale ale it is not.
East India Pale Ales had extra flavours and alcohol enhanced to counter act the degrading of beer to survive the long sea voyages of our colonial transportation systems.